None of these are free but they provide distinct advantages over the first group where user patience is short. Except for Photoshop, each of these applications can edit without touching the original data, recording recipes in the metadata to affect changes when the image is opened. Among the more serious editing packages are Light Craft's LightZone ( ), Apple's Aperture ( ) and Adobe's Lightroom ( ) and Photoshop ( ). If you want more control, you look up a shelf. Sure, you can eliminate red-eye or lighten a backlit subject but anything else gets tricky. While these tools make global changes easy to make - lighting or darkening a whole image, for example - making a change in just one part of an image is often obscure. And recently even Adobe has jumped on the free social networking model with Photoshop Express ( ) and the formerly pay service Phanfare ( ) has opted for the free model, too.Īll of those free options have some photo organizing and sharing options but as image editors they provide only what they have to provide in what they like to think are tools easy enough for a child to use.
Kodak Easyshare ( ) is one such, Google Picasa ( ) another. On the long ride home from Dogpatch on the T streetcar, we had a chance to think about that.Įvery camera comes with some sort of image editing software but that hasn't stopped the flow of options, no matter what brand camera you have. And that piece of the pie is getting a lot of attention lately. Nikon's Lindsay Silverman told us that while the company is primarily identified with the pro market, that's a much smaller part of its business than the amateur market. every night to see the family you're supporting. It doesn't matter if you're the Mom trying to keep track of all the digital images acquired every time you open your purse to pull out the camera or a pro who is trying to get home by 6 p.m. And frankly, none of them have won the argument. A lot of competent programs are competing to be part of your workflow solution. That includes last week's releases of Nikon Transfer and View, plus this week's release of Capture NX 2. We found our way back to Dogpatch Studios ( ) again, this time for a demo of Nikon's latest release of their software suite. The Imaging Resource Digital Photography Newsletter
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